Ishtiaque Zafar
Founding Engineer at Skyflow
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIshtiaque Zafar is a Founding Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, highly automated systems for startups and scale-ups. He has repeatedly transformed manual operations into scalable products—most recently helping FINN grow its subscriptions from 20K to 100K by rebuilding APIs, customer portals and operational tooling. A proponent of serverless architectures and automation, he combines backend engineering strengths (Node.js/Jira integrations) with product-minded execution to reduce operational toil and accelerate time-to-market. He mentors and speaks in the local developer community, runs trainings, and maintains an active GitHub presence contributing practical integration tooling. Colleagues know him as more than a coder: a founder-type engineer who bridges cross-team collaboration between product, finance and data to deliver measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Government College of Engineering and Ceramic TechnologySchool Science, School Science at Modern SchoolHigh School science, High School science at Modern English Academy
English, Hindi, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
api-rest10
jira10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
jira-rest-api10
permission10
api10
rest-api10
nodejs10
access-management10
rights-management10
border6
html6
width6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
floralvikings/jira-connector
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
NodeJS Wrapper for the Jira REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ishtiaque primarily focused on building the backend for a Jira connector, as indicated by the file names and commit messages. They added core functionalities such as permission and permission scheme management, including creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting schemes, alongside the associated permissions. They also incorporated group member retrieval within the API, extended the issue type functionalities, and improved the overall API structure. The user also worked on creating REST API endpoints related to roles, including their creation, retrieval, and management of default actors.
jira-rest-apinodejsrest
dev-z/dev-z.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2026
Online CV
Contributions:9 PRs, 29 pushes, 7 branches in 10 years 4 months
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